Excavating an ancient tomb containing an intact male human body suspected of being an ancient Chinese aristocrat

On the morning of August 30, 2017, a group of workers was constructing a construction in Anhua District of Hunan Province, China, when an ancient tomb was discovered underground. Unable to hide his curiosity, this group of people dug up and discovered a fairly old wooden coffin. Predicting that it was likely a thousand-year-old tomb, it was quickly reported to the authorities and staff in the city's museum to the scene.

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The ancient tomb was unearthed, the body inside is intact.

After the ancient coffin was dug up, many people present at the scene could not help but panic at the integrity of the body in the coffin. According to some early speculations, the owner of this coffin was the son of a wealthy family. And this is also the first body found intact in the ancient tomb from the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644), early Thanh (1644-1911).

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The curious people around were curious about the body of this body.

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A fan was found in the coffin.

According to the news site Yiyang, this tomb was dug up from the vacant land in Jiangnan Industrial Park. The group of workers after finding the body in the intact coffin was intimidated. According to the archaeologists' analysis when the news was received, the coffin was buried quite well, buried deep in fine soil, in addition to well preserved bodies, so after several hundred years of clothing and The surrounding objects are still intact and not rotting.

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